Maritime Revival
In transforming this 150-year-old row house in a gentrifying neighbourhood, the architects applied a contemporary approach to space planning while ret...
24-04-2018 21:51
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Transforming Space: Philip Beesley exhibition coming to ROM
Opening in June, a new and original installation from Canadian artist and visionary architect Philip Beesley will be on display at the Royal Ontario M...
24-04-2018 21:51
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Lemay, Perkins+Will, and Bisson Fortin to design Montreal
One of North America?s largest public transportation projects, the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) will transform the Greater Montreal Region publ...
23-04-2018 21:54
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In The Black
The upgrading of Montréal?s aging housing stock has attracted a rich variety of responses over the last few years from the city?s young architects, wh...
20-04-2018 21:50
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Submissions open for 51st Canadian Architect Awards of Excel
Celebrating 51 years, Canadian Architect has since 1967 sponsored an annual national awards program recognizing projects in the design stage. Each yea...
20-04-2018 21:50
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Perkins+Will’s Albion Library a sole Canadian winner a
Yesterday, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) revealed the winners of the 2018 COTE Top Ten Projects Awards, which are granted by the AIA’s ...
20-04-2018 21:50
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Huntington Society hosting Toronto architectural walking tou
Join the Toronto Chapter of the Huntington Society of Canada for the 20th Annual Wiswell Family Gems Walk featuring the Downtown West Neighbourhood. E...
19-04-2018 21:51
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Smartgeometry sg2018 | May 7 – May 12
sg is a bi-annual Workshop + Conference, this year entitled sg2018: Machine Minds. The sg2018 Workshop and Conference is a gathering of the global com...
18-04-2018 21:57
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Design Excavation
Three blocks east of Main Street in Vancouver?s Little Mountain neighbourhood, the 480 House project of D?Arcy Jones Architecture (DJA) sits on a gent...
18-04-2018 21:57
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Architects from 13 Canadian cities named 2018 RAIC Fellows
A Toronto specialist in culinary education; the project architect for Vancouver?s largest transit-oriented development, a Calgary-based aviation desig...
18-04-2018 21:57
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UNCEDED celebrates patronage from Ontario Lieutenant Governo
UNCEDED: Voices of the Land, Canada?s official entry to the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, would like to announce that it has received the disting...
18-04-2018 21:57
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Diamond Schmitt’s Weiser Hall inaugurated in Ann Arbor
The transformation of a landmark building on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor is being celebrated today. The renovation and expansion of...
17-04-2018 21:48
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A meeting with B. V. Doshi and a conversation on the 1958 To
?Sangath, it?s an architect?s office isn?t it"? asks the auto-rickshaw driver as we make our way through Ahmedabad?s late afternoon traffic. By this p...
17-04-2018 21:48
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B.C. government, United Church partner in new affordable hou
The United Church in British Columbia is stepping forward to help address the province?s affordable housing crisis by offering up some of its properti...
17-04-2018 21:48
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Royal Ontario Museum kicking off Bloor Street revitalization
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) today announced plans to begin work on the Helga and Mike Schmidt Performance Terrace and the Reed Family Plaza. This i...
16-04-2018 21:49
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London Festival of Architecture 2018 | June 1 to June 3
The London Festival of Architecture celebrates London as a global hub of architectural experimentation, practice and debate. The festival returns to t...
13-04-2018 21:50
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Learning from Balkrishna Doshi
For the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi, architecture is ?never about resolving a problem; it is about discovery in the joy o...
13-04-2018 21:50
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AIA Conference on Architecture 2018 | June 21 to June 2
At A?18, some of the most creative architects, designers, and firms will share how they?re creating their own blueprint and making a difference in cit...
13-04-2018 21:50
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Futuro | to June 3
A tribute to an icon of the space age with a presentation in an outdoor space at Pinakothek der Moderne. The Futoro ? or Future House ? was designed b...
13-04-2018 21:50
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La Biennale di Venezia | May 26 to November 25
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara curate the 16th installations of the legendary international architecture exhibition, on the grounds of the Giardi...
13-04-2018 21:50
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Serpentine Pavilion: Frida Escobedo | June 15 to Octobe
Architect Frida Escobedo, celebrated for dynamic projects that reactivate urban space, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2018. H...
13-04-2018 21:50
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Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948?1
Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, Yugoslavia?s architects responded to contradictory demands and influences, developing a p...
13-04-2018 21:50
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Architecture+Design film festival returns to Winnipeg April
The Architecture+Design Film Festival will again take place in Winnipeg on April 18th to 22nd, 2018.This year?s festival will present 24 films from 10...
13-04-2018 21:50
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Home Truths
For the Communist Party of China, housing has always been a tool to control the population. State-run businesses initially delivered units under the a...
13-04-2018 21:50
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Iconic Houses Conference | May 15 to May 18
The 5th annual conference will focus on the themes of: Modernism on the East Coast ? Philip Johnson and the Harvard Five, and Iconic Houses in Latin A...
13-04-2018 21:50
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Offsite: Asim Waqif
New Delhi-based artist Asim Waqif repurposes waste generated by demolition sites in Vancouver?s urban areas, employing materials from abandoned and de...
12-04-2018 21:53
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55th International Making Cities Livable Conference | M
The International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) movement?s 55th Conference will take place in Ottawa. Organized with the active partnership of the City...
12-04-2018 21:53
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Spaces Between: AIBC Conference 2018 | May 5 to May 9
The 2018 Architectural Institute of British Columbia conference will explore the many interpretations of Spaces Between ? where ideas that are seeming...
12-04-2018 21:53
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Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966?1976 | May 1 to October
Organized by Palazzo Strozzi and curated by Pino Brugellis, Gianni Pettena, and Alberto Salvadori, the exhibition brings together the work of Archizoo...
12-04-2018 21:53
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Cabin Fever | June 9 to September 30
The exhibition traces the tradition of the cabin in Canada and the United States?from the settlement of the frontier to the contemporary depictions fe...
12-04-2018 21:53
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Bold by Design: OAA Conference 2018 | May 23 to May 25
The architectural issues of the 21st century will require big thinking and radical approaches. This year?s Ontario Association of Architects conferenc...
12-04-2018 21:53
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Vancouver Design Week | May 7 to May 13
Vancouver Design Week is a collaborative platform, a call to action and an invitation to us all to immerse in design and its transformative potential....
12-04-2018 21:53
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Unstable Presence: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | May 24 to Sep
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is one of the most prominent international artists working in Canada today. Over the past few decades, he has earned a reputation...
12-04-2018 21:53
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Philip Beesley: Transforming Space | June 2 to October
Can architecture respond, feel, and care" Can it start, in primitive ways, to come alive" Philip Beesley thinks so. Philip Beesley: Transforming Space...
12-04-2018 21:53
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Lab Cult: An unorthodox history of interchanges between scie
After a long period of questioning science?s capacity to provide answers to architecture?s social mandate, architects and designers are once again enc...
12-04-2018 21:53
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Winners announced for CSLA awards in landscape architecture
The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) announced the recipients of the Awards of Excellence. This year, 15 projects received a national a...
11-04-2018 21:54
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Big Pond
Universities are sometimes described as giant daycare centres for bright but otherwise unemployable youth, and the lack of urban amenities on most sub...
11-04-2018 21:54
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May 11 submission deadline for Canadian Interiors’ Bes
Our sister publication, Canadian Interiors, invites Canadian interior designers and architects to enter the 2018 Best of Canada Awards Competition. Th...
11-04-2018 21:54
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Provinces, territories agree to billions in spending on Libe
Provinces and territories have agreed to fund a key financial pillar supporting the Trudeau Liberals? decade-long housing strategy, vowing to spend bi...
10-04-2018 21:50
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Down to the Waterfront
With its idyllic setting facing the Saint John River opposite the Provincial Legislature, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery has been a distinguished presenc...
10-04-2018 21:50
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Canadian Architect, April 2018 Issue
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09-04-2018 21:51
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Voting open for 2018 OAA People’s Choice Award
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) is inviting members of the public to vote for their favourite project from the Design Excellence Award win...
09-04-2018 21:51
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The Art of the City
Raffaele Milani is beside himself with concern about the current deplorable state of modern megacities. As an Italian, he has lived the contradictions...
06-04-2018 21:53
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Jury announced for 2018 Prairie Design Awards
Every two years, The Alberta Association of Architects, The Saskatchewan Association of Architects and The Manitoba Association of Architects celebrat...
06-04-2018 21:53
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06-04-2018 21:53
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Downtown Toronto hospital removes bars aimed at keeping home
A health organization that runs several hospitals in Toronto has apologized for installing bars over a vent outside a downtown emergency department to...
05-04-2018 21:54
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Luc Bouliane receives RAIC’s 2018 Young Architect Awar
Luc Bouliane, MRAIC, a Toronto architect whose designs are inspired by the geology of Northern Ontario, will receive the 2018 Young Architect Award of...
04-04-2018 21:53
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Women led projects take top prizes at LafargeHolcim sustaina
Projects in Mexico, Niger, and the USA win the 5th Global LafargeHolcim Awards for Sustainable Construction. As diverse as the three top projects are ...
03-04-2018 21:53
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Moriyama & Teshima + Acton Ostry win competition for
George Brown College has announced that Moriyama & Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects have been selected to design The Arbour ? moving one st...
03-04-2018 21:53
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Free Run
Only in Manitoba do we have to build hills,? says Peter Sampson, co-principal with Liz Wreford of Public City Architecture. Although Saskatchewanites...
03-04-2018 21:53
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Winners announced for 2018 OAA Awards
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 OAA Awards. This year?s winners showcase diversity in desig...
03-04-2018 21:53
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Pedestrian Friendly
A block west of Olympic Stadium in Montreal, the Guido-Nincheri Park reclaims that small corner of the urban realm from the automobile, creating a new...
03-04-2018 21:53
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Call for submissions: RAIC Centennial Fund for Intern Archit
The RAIC College of Fellows Centennial Fund for Intern/Intern Architects will be awarded to individuals who have shown leadership and who have made si...
02-04-2018 21:58
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Under the Expressway: The Bentway
Anyone with an even passing familiarity with Toronto?s history knows that late 19th-century railways and post-war highways posed an existential threat...
29-03-2018 21:58
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City Builders: Jay Pitter
Jay Pitter is a Toronto-based author, placemaker and advocate for more inclusive, safe and vibrant cities. The co-editor (with John Lorinc) of the 201...
28-03-2018 21:56
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City Builders: Ken Greenberg
Toronto-based urban designer Ken Greenberg is a former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto, and Principal of Greenberg C...
28-03-2018 21:56
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John Brown named Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental De
The University of Calgary has announced the appointment of Dr. John L. Brown as the Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design, which offers professi...
28-03-2018 21:56
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Grow Op: Art, design + nature exhibit returning to Gladstone
All four floors of Toronto’s iconic Gladstone Hotel will be taken over by plants, moss, overflowing water, bumble bee nectar pods, nuclear waste, fi...
27-03-2018 21:53
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City Builders: Andy Yan
Andy Yan is an urban planner and the director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University. A former research director at Bing Thom Architects, he g...
27-03-2018 21:53
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New Webster Library opens at Montreal’s Concordia Univ
Following a multi-year construction process, the official opening of the new Webster Library at Concordia University took place on March 23rd. Designe...
27-03-2018 21:53
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City Builders: Martha Thorne
Martha Thorne, an American architectural scholar, curator, editor, author and urbanist, is currently the Executive Director of the Pritzker Architectu...
27-03-2018 21:53
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Toronto council considering potential changes to major thoro
Toronto politicians are set to decide on measures that would redesign part of a major thoroughfare to better serve pedestrians and cyclists, a vote th...
26-03-2018 21:55
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Montreal invites submissions for De la Commune redevelopment
C40, a network of the world?s megacities committed to addressing climate change, has launched the Reinventing Cities call for projects, in order to tr...
26-03-2018 21:55
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Bold by Design: Registration open for OAA conference
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) has opened registration for this year’s conference: Bold by Design. Taking place at the Metro Toronto Co...
24-03-2018 21:55
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Finalist teams selected for George Brown’s tall wood s
This week, Toronto’s George Brown College announced the four finalist architectural teams to design ‘The Arbour’, which will be a 12-storey mass...
23-03-2018 21:56
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Exploring the Capital: An Architectural Guide to the Ottawa
The American Institute of Architects guides to major American cities have long made Canada seem like a poor cousin. But historian Andrew Waldron?s boo...
23-03-2018 21:56
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Canadian Interiors accepting entries for Best of Canada awar
Our sister publication, Canadian Interiors, is launching another edition of the annual ‘Best of Canada’ awards, which recognize excellence in inte...
22-03-2018 21:53
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Lab Cult: CCA exhibit interrogates links between science and
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents Lab Cult: An unorthodox history of interchanges between science and architecture. On view in the C...
22-03-2018 21:53
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The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as E
Economy as ethic. For the Halifax-based firm MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple, this book illustrates more than an architectural approach. And for Brian McKay-L...
22-03-2018 21:53
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Chevalier Morales Architectes win RAIC’s Emerging Prac
Chevalier Morales Architectes, a Montreal-based architectural firm that reflects the positive impact of the architectural competition process in Quebe...
21-03-2018 21:55
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Sidewalk Labs ‘hadn’t foreseen’ data conce
Sidewalk Labs “hadn’t foreseen†how fiercely Canadians would demand that their data be retained within the country when it first sought out to d...
21-03-2018 21:55
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Michael Green Architecture reveals plans for Newark’s
Already recognized as innovators in mass timber design, Vancouver’s Michael Green Architecture are set to bring another major timber project to real...
21-03-2018 21:55
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Vatican enters Venice Architecture Biennale with 10 chapels
The Vatican is planting 10 chapels in the woods of one of Venice’s lagoon islands for its first-ever contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennal...
20-03-2018 21:59
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How Green Is Our Valley
Below the nearly endless landscape to the north, the narrow belt of our country?s population makes for a profoundly urban nation, whose wilderness is ...
20-03-2018 21:59
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Toronto Architecture: A City Guide
Even when it was first published in 1985, and in 1989 when the second edition was released, I?m not convinced booksellers filed Patricia McHugh?s T...
20-03-2018 21:59
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University of Toronto student exhibitions opening this week
On Friday, March 23, 2018 those interested in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto (U of T) are welcome to attend the Opening Reception of...
20-03-2018 21:59
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RAIC College of Fellows elects Tom Emodi as new Dean
Tom Emodi, FRAIC, a Halifax architect, has been acclaimed as Dean of the RAIC College of Fellows for a three-year term beginning May 2018.
Tom Emodi. ...
19-03-2018 21:57
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Viewpoint: Subway Follies
Transportation infrastructure influences the shape of cities for centuries. The road pattern of ancient Rome still provides settings for a thousand si...
19-03-2018 21:57
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Mike Brennan named new RAIC CEO
Mike Brennan. Photo via RAIC.
The Board of Directors of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) announces a change to the leadership team. ...
16-03-2018 21:52
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March 30 deadline for Mississauga Urban Design Awards
The City of Mississauga has opened submissions for the 2018 Mississauga Urban Design Award, with project nominations accepted until March 30. This ye...
16-03-2018 21:52
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Lethbridge College Innovation Centre wins Prairie Wood Desig
An expanded trades and technologies centre at Alberta’s Lethbridge College received top honours at the Prairie Wood Design Awards for the institutio...
16-03-2018 21:52
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Canadian Architect, March 2018 Issue
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15-03-2018 21:55
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5 women accuse architect Richard Meier of sexual harassment
Prize-winning architect Richard Meier is facing sexual-harassment accusations from several women and is taking a six-month leave from the New York- an...
14-03-2018 21:55
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Toronto’s Park People launches Public Space Incubator
This month, Toronto-based charity Park People has launched a ‘Public Space Incubator,’ aiming to re-imagine parts of the city’s public realm fro...
14-03-2018 21:55
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Urbanarium debate on missing middle housing comes to UBC
On March 28, the not-for-profit organization Urbanarium hosts another entry in its ‘missing middle’ debate series, tackling the question of how to...
13-03-2018 21:54
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Steering Committee selected for Aga Khan Award for Architect
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture has announced the members of the Steering Committee for the Fourteenth Award Cycle (2017 ? 2019). Established in 1...
13-03-2018 21:54
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RAW Moments
A simple hut sits in a wind-swept landscape. Materials: wood, white tarpaulin. Overhead, a soulful prairie sky. Beneath, ice: a frozen membrane, stret...
12-03-2018 21:54
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Architect Todd Saunders announces residence at Fogo Island I
Returning just in time for Fogo Island Inn’s 5th birthday month, Newfoundland-born, Norway-based architect Todd Saunders will be in residence at Fog...
12-03-2018 21:54
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RDHA wins RAIC’s 2018 Architectural Firm Award
RDHA, a Toronto-based architecture studio that has specialized in public buildings for almost a century, and has in recent years undergone a successfu...
09-03-2018 22:01
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Finalists announced for 2018 OAA Design Excellence Awards
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the OAA Design Excellence Awards. This year?s 20 short-listed pro...
08-03-2018 21:53
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Martha Thorne’s live video analysis celebrates Pritzke
Pritzker Architecture Prize
The biggest award in global architecture will add another name to its list of laureates today, with the winner of the Prit...
07-03-2018 21:54
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Balkrishna Doshi wins 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Professor Balkrishna Doshi, of India, has been selected as the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Fo...
07-03-2018 21:54
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The Metropolis of Cities: Barcelona’s Joan Busquets co
Joan Busquets
Curated by the renowned architect and urban planner Joan Busquets, the Barcelona, the Metropolis of Cities exhibit has been on display a...
06-03-2018 21:52
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OAA President John Stephenson returning for second term
OAA President John Stephenson. Photo via OAA.
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) is pleased to announce the election of John Stephenson, OAA,...
06-03-2018 21:52
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Assembly Architecture and S2 Architecture unveil Richmond
Designed by Assembly Architecture and S2 Architecture, the new 2,425 square metre Cambie Fire Hall No. 3 and Richmond North Ambulance Station provides...
05-03-2018 21:52
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Fire rated glass continuing education course comes online in
SAFTI FIRST, a leading North American manufacturer of advanced fire rated glass and framing systems, has announced that its AIBC registered continuing...
04-03-2018 21:50
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Laurentian University hosting Métis Architecture and Design
On Thursday, March 15, Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture will host the one-day Métis Architecture and Design Symposium.
The all-...
03-03-2018 21:49
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Technological innovation takes centre stage at 2018 Wood Des
Innovative architectural and structural design in taller and larger mass timber buildings headlined the 2018 Wood Design Awards event at the Vancouver...
02-03-2018 21:50
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Standing Tall
Because it?s 2018, tall wood and mass timber are here to stay. In the race to be the tallest wood tower in the world, he current title-holder, as of t...
01-03-2018 21:53
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RAIC evaluates federal budget impacts on built environment
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) regards the investments in gender equity, Indigenous communities, and research and innovation in th...
01-03-2018 21:53
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